1
2

Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of errant The room’s two windows are covered with heavy black shades, lest an errant ray of the rising sun penetrate. Amy Virshup, Vulture, 14 May 2025 In the bottom of the second, Hicks hit Trea Turner with an errant 100.9 mph sinker. Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2025 There is no one cause for errant federal payments, and fraud and improper payments are not synonyms. Kevin R. Kosar, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025 The notion of an errant line emitted from disabled bodies, intentionally or unintentionally, is inextricable from the modern origins of graphic inscription and other graphic methods in the nineteenth century. Mara Mills, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for errant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for errant
Adjective
  • The sophisticated audiences of 2025 require a little more grit, more mischievous fun.
    Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Zada lives up to the mischievous troublemaker in Lockhart’s book.
    Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • One hypothesis as to how the fossils ended up there is that seasonal nomadic livestock herders traded meat and goods such as fossils with local inhabitants, in exchange for use of their land.
    Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025
  • Seed, who followed her parents’ career paths as a photographer, also discovered a trove of her mother’s own photographs, revealing a distinctive, clear-eyed aesthetic and a nomadic itch.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025
Adjective
  • In other news, water is wet and the Islanders are naughty.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 21 June 2025
  • The Renaissance’s old love language — the naughty puns, the sighs of longing and strategies of seduction, the paeans to the beauty of beloveds masked by fanciful Greek and Latin names — had grown obsolete long before Millay’s time.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 1 May 2025
Adjective
  • Just recently the Wizards, whose only NBA championship was as the Bullets in 1979, had the second worst record this season only to miss out on the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes and slide to No.6 in the upcoming draft.
    Tristan Lavalette, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Overall, the recent western drought was at its worst in late 2021, when nearly 94% of the West was in drought, before easing in 2023-24.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 28 June 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Podcast

Cite this Entry

“Errant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/errant. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on errant

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!